Coastwalk

Sittingbourne → Rainham

Distance: 16.2 miles
Ascent: 174 metres
Duration: 5 hours 15 minutes

Industry to marshland
« Faversham | Strood »

The first five miles out of Sittingbourne follow an industrial landscape. Water treatment works, a paper mill, a landfill site and a quarry. The sentence of chimneys, jetties, silos and sluices is punctuated by the great full-stop of the Kingsferry lifting Bridge, rising high above the Swale. Beyond the bridge the path stretches across Ferry and Chetney marshes, a change in landscape that is sudden, dramatic and welcome.